The Astoria team posted another article in their transparent design process series (which I absolutely love by the way). The design discussion essentially touches on the need to bring DDD’s aggregate pattern into both the EDM and data service, and make it a first class citizen. I think their approach is great and will enable a much richer/meaningful model. This just goes to show you that the team is going in the right direction.
Be sure to visit the team’s blog and leave some feedback on what you think. The Astoria team has made a great provision by opening up their design thoughts to the public. It would be a shame for us not to leverage it 
You’ve probably heard about the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature that is a part of the recently released ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP, but maybe you’ve been scratching your head trying to figure out what exactly it offers you. Well, Scott Hunter, a PM of the Dynamic Data team just published a great breakdown of what exactly Dynamic Data includes in terms of functionality.
The coolest thing that article brings out is that the majority of the functionality offered by Dynamic Data doesn’t even require the use of the automatic scaffolding. What does that mean? It means, you could leverage the pieces of Dynamic Data you want, in a traditional ASP.NET web application, or even a new ASP.NET MVC application. How awesome is that?!
